Census Bureau Finds Health Coverage Stabilization; Oregon 1332 Waiver Open For Comment

On September 12, 2017, the United States Census Bureau released its report on Health Insurance Coverage in the United States for 2016. The report is based on data collected by the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement and American Community Survey. The report summarizes the status of the American insured and uninsured population during the last year of the Obama presidency, thus creating a baseline for what follows. After a sharp drop in the number of the uninsured and expansion of insurance coverage following the full implementation of the Affordable Care Act in 2014, insurance coverage has stabilized in the United States. The percent of people in the United States uninsured for the entire year fell from 9.1 percent (29 million) in 2015 to 8.8 percent (28.1 million) in 2016, with insurance coverage changing marginally for most forms of coverage. The only statistically significant gain in coverage (0.4 percent) was in the Medicare population. A total of 67.5 percent of Americans had private coverage and 37.3 percent had government coverage, with employer coverage insuring the largest percentage of the population (55.7 percent). The percentage of people lacking insurance coverage fell for most age groups under age 65, with generally larger decreases for working-age adults (although working-age adults are less likely to be covered than children or adults over age 65). The percentage of uninsured children remained largely unchanged at ...
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